TripAdvisor Reviews Haotian Xiangyue Hotel Pingyao

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We are staying in the old walled city of Pingyao originally built 2700 years ago and one of the best preserved ancient cities in the world. What is nice is that it is still inhabited by 50,000 so at night when all the tourist have gone, you can prowl around like a local. Our hotel is called Jings Residence and is based around an original courtyard house but updated for a modern and luxurious stay. Our room faces the courtyard and has the biggest bed ...

... like dog food. This probably wasn't the best idea as the dogs followed us towards the city exit and main road as if we were the pied pipers. They luckily turned back just in time. We returned to our favourite skewer restaurant as they actually have tasty vegetarian food, which im struggling to find in China. They also had chicken feet, with pointy claws, that Sergei happily tucked in to.

Wow that was a long train journey however quite a surreal experience sleeping on a train particulary on a hard sleeper, so about the train, it has hard sleeper, soft sleeper, sof seat and hard seat carriages, each carriage has a toilet at either end, also each carriage has hot water, which as wesaw is for making tea and for dinner and breakfast which for the chinese consisted of instant noodles, ...

... both excited to see Lily (Bruce's niece) and Yule who we hadn't seen since last summer. Lily had started walking and had grown so much since our last character and has a great little personality. She is always on the move looking for something to climb up onto. We spent time catching upon everything and relaxing with everyone. It was also great to see Nix and Bounder (who I secretly became very attached to!) the dogs. That afternoon we headed out for lunch to see Roz (Bruce's ...